Radiator foot-rest.



RJENSEN. RADIATOR FOOT REST. KPPLICATION FILED MAY 19, I916.

Patented Feb. 6,191 7.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 6, 1917.

Application filed May 19, 1916. Serial No. 98,626.

To all gohom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Roscon JENSEN, a c1t1zen of the United States,residing at Sprague, in the county of Lincoln and State of IVashington,have invented new and useful Improvements in Radiator Foot-Rests, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention is an improved foot rest especially adapted to beattached to a radiator of a hot water or steam heating system and toenable one to readily warm his feet at the radiator, the object of theinvention being to provide an improved device of this character which ischeap and simple in construction, strong and durable, and which may bereadily attached to or detached from a radiator at Will. The inventionconsists in the features of construction, combination, and arrangementof devices, claimed.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of a footrest constructed and arranged in accordance with my invention andshowing the same attached to a radiator.

Fig. 2 is a detail plan of the foot rest.

Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view of the same. 7 v

Fig. 4 is a detailed sectional view of the same, showing one of the jawsin inclined position as when the foot rest is attached to a radiatorcoil.

In the embodiment of my invention, I provide a pair of oppositely curvedjaws 2 which may be arranged on the sides of the coils of a radiator,either at points intermediate the ends of the radiator, or at the endsthereof, according to the length of the foot rest. Each jaw 2 has anoutwardly eX- tending arm 3. A rest bar or rod 4t is also provided whichmay be of any suitable length and the ends of which are pivotallymounted in the outer ends of a pair of lever arms 5. The said lever armsare piv'otally connected, at points intermediate their ends as at 6, tothe arms3 of the jaws or brackets and are arranged on the inner sides ofsaid arms 3. The inner ends 7 of the lever arms are roughened orserrated as at 8 and are adapted to engage the outer sides of the coilsof the radiator.- The length of the inhereinafter fully described and 7extending arms; a rest bar ner portions of the lever arms 5 is such thatwhen the brackets or jaws 2 are attached to the radiator coils andcaused to grasp the inner sides thereof, the said arms 5 are in aninclined position extending upwardly and outwardly and with their innerends 7 depressed and their serrated inner ends 8 engaged with the outeredges or sides of the coils, so that the coils are firmly clutchedbetween the inner ends of the jaws o1- brackets and the inner ends ofthe lever arms as will be understood and are firmly secured thereto andyet may be readily vertically adjusted or removed at will. Locking pins9 secure the lever arms in place.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, the advantages of construction and of the methodof operation will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art towhich the invention relates, and while I have described the principlesof operation of the device together with the device which I now considerto be the best embodiment thereof, I desire to have it understood thatthe device shown is merely illustrative and that such changes may bemade when desired as are within the scope of the claim appended hereto.7

Having described the invention, what is claimed is:

A radiator foot rest comprising a pair of brackets having jaw members attheir inner ends to engage around opposite sides of the radiator coilsand also having outwardly or rod, and lever arms attached to the res tbar or rod and pivotally connected to the arms of the brackets, thepivots being intermediate the ends of the lever arms, and so spaced fromthe inner ends of said lever arms as to cause said arms to be arrangedin inclined position with outer ends uppermost and to hence eXert stressoutwardly on the jaw members and grip the latter against the inner sideof the coils.

In testimony whereof I aifixmy signature.

. RosooE- JENSEN.

, Witnesses J NO. I. MELVILL, RALPH R. JANEs.

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